162Application for certificate of eligibility for coal‑fired generation assistance

#### 162 Application for certificate of eligibility for coal‑fired generation assistance (1) A person may, within 30 days after the commencement of this section, apply for the Regulator to issue a certificate of eligibility for coal‑fired generation assistance in respect of a generation complex. (2) A person is not entitled to make an application in respect of a generation complex unless the person owns, controls or operates the generation complex. (3) Applications must be mutually exclusive so far as their coverage of generation units is concerned. (4) If the Regulator receives 2 or more applications that, when taken together, breach subsection (3): (a) the Regulator must not consider any of those applications; and (b) the Regulator must, by written notice given to the applicants, reject those applications and inform the applicants that: (i) the applications breach subsection (3); and (ii) if one or more fresh applications are made within 20 days after the notice was given and those fresh applications do not breach subsection (3), the Regulator will be prepared to consider those fresh applications. (5) The 30 day time limit in subsection (1) does not apply to a fresh application made in response to a notice under subsection (4). (6) This Act (other than subsection (4)) has effect as if an application rejected under subsection (4) had never been made. (7) The Regulator may extend the 30 day time limit in subsection (1) for the making of a particular application, so long as: (a) the extended time limit is not later than 60 days after the commencement of this section; and (b) the application, when taken together with any other application or applications received by the Regulator, does not breach subsection (3).